Threatened landscapes : conserving cultural environments / edited by Bryn Green and Willem Vos.
"This book documents the changes in cultural landscapes ranging from the farm and forest lands of Europe and Eastern North America, through to the pasture lands and savannas of the Middle East and Africa to the paddylands of the Pacific Rim. The contributors illustrate them through detailed cas...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Spon Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Art & Architecture Complete |
| Summary: | "This book documents the changes in cultural landscapes ranging from the farm and forest lands of Europe and Eastern North America, through to the pasture lands and savannas of the Middle East and Africa to the paddylands of the Pacific Rim. The contributors illustrate them through detailed case studies of a representative selection of threatened landscapes, analyzes their underlying causes and explores ways by which they can continue to be maintained, or new landscapes created which maintain their desired characteristics."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic document (xiv, 169 p.) : ill., maps |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203220897 1135802564 1135802572 1280025662 9780203220894 9781135802561 9781135802578 9781280025662 |